Template:ExternalMediaLink

Documentation

Please use {{Special:FormEdit/ExternalMediaLinks}} locally on the wikis instead.

Parameters

|type=

Specify the type of content, choose from interview, highlight, preview, gallery, conclusion, spotlight (video), miscellaneous

|date=

Please use YYYY-MM-DD format for proper alignment.

|link=

Full url with a direct link such as http://www.example.com/test.html. This variable is not optional.

|title=

Title of the link. The headline provided by the source is most often the best choice here.

|by=

Name of author if available, if not can use name of organization or website.

|of=

If name of author is known, you can add the organization they represent here. Do not include full URLs here. (Teamliquid or Teamliquid.net but not http://Teamliquid.net)

|language=

Use this to indicate which language an interview is in, use corresponding country codes (i.e. se for Swedish, kr for Korean, fr for French, etc.).

Leave this field empty if the interview is in English.

|note=

Note about the interview if needed.

Optional

In order to facilitate several types of content, a number of parameters are optional.

|subject1= (up to 5)

Name of the subject of the content, e.g. player id

|subject_team=

Team name for subject(s)

|translation=

Use this to indicate which language an interview is translated into.

|translator=

Name of the translator if available.

|event=

Name of event, this will create an internal link if you do not use the next parameter.

|event-link=

If article link on Liquipedia is not pretty, use this to hide the link path.

Set this to false if you do not wish to have the event parameter create an internal link.

Copy/Paste Code

*{{ExternalMediaLink
|type=
|date=
|link=
|title=
|by=
|of=
|event=
|event-link=
|language=
|translation=
|translator=
}}

Short form:

*{{ExternalMediaLink  |type=  |date=  |link=  |title=  |by=  |of=  |event=  |event-link= |language= |translation= }}

Example

*{{ExternalMediaLink
|type=interview
|date=2012-02-03
|link=http://example.com
|title="Noam: I will be the greatest template coder on the northern hemisphere by next year"
|by=the gnome
|of=Liquipedia.net
|event=the Liquipedia yearly convention 
|event-link=false
|language=kr
|translation=usuk
|translator=somebody
|note=The interview was conducted on Jan 1, 2012
}}

creates:

• 2012-02-03 |  "Noam: I will be the greatest template coder on the northern hemisphere by next year" by the gnome of Liquipedia.net at the Liquipedia yearly convention (trans.  by somebody) (The interview was conducted on Jan 1, 2012)